Sovereign debt at the crossroads
Subtitle: challenges and proposals for resolving the third world debt crisis
By: editors, Chris Jochnick & Fraser A. Preston.
Contributors: Jochnick, Chris.; Preston, Fraser A.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Debts, External -- Developing countries; Debt relief -- Developing countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Jeffrey D. Sachs; title: Introduction; title: Creditor initiatives in the 1980s and 1990s / David M. Roodman; title: Playing games with African lives: the G-7 debt relief strategy & the politics of indifference / Fantu Cheru; title: Sovereign debt and debt crisis in emerging countries: the experience of the 1990s / Daniel Marx, Jose Echague and Guido Sandleris; title: Ecological debt - the economic possibilities for our grandchildren / Andrew Simms; title: Defining 'illegitimate debt': when creditors should be liable for improper loans / Joseph Hanlon; title: The legal case for debt repudiation / Chris Jochnick; title: Ethics, market and government failure, and globalization: perspectives on debt and finance / Joseph E. Stiglitz; title: Helping the poor to help themselves: debt relief or aid? / Serkan Arslanalp and Peter Blair Henry; title: International finance for conservation: the first 15 years of debt-for-nature swaps / William K. Reilly; title: Odious debt / Seema Jayachandran and Michael Kremer; title: Dealing comprehensively, and justly, with sovereign debt / Jack Boorman; title: The IMF's SDRM - simply disastrous rescheduling management? / Kunibert Raffer; title: Dealing with sovereign debt: trends and implications / Arturo C. Porzecanski; title: The jubilee 2000 campaign; a brief overview / Ann Pettifor.